Victor D. Chase

A Chilling Tale Of Nuclear Weaponry

Freezing and maintaining the reliability of the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile would appear to be diametrically opposed concepts. Think of one and the notion of shivering in the cold comes to mind. The other conjures images of an inferno.

But in the world inhabited by Jim Glosli, a staff physicist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and other members of the Simulations Group, freezing and nuclear weapons mesh perfectly. Their job is to conduct computer simulations of what happens when metals freeze, or change from a liquid to a solid state.

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Selected Works

Books

Shattered Nerves: How Science Is Solving Modern Medicine's Most Perplexing Problem

My book is as much about the people involved in this dynamic new field as it is about the science. In it I tell the stories of the researchers and of the patients on whom this technology is being tested, some of whom have become an intrinsic part of the teams creating these devices.

Computer Articles

Modeling An Earth-Shaking Event

“Earthquakes don’t kill people,” seismologist Arthur Rodgers says. “Buildings do.”

A Chilling Tale Of Nuclear Weaponry

Made to Order: IBM Makes Sense Out of Unstructured Data

Researchers are developing systems to bring a rapidly growing and seemingly uncontrollable mass of information, into an orderly, usable state of being. IBM’s Think Research, 2002

Detecting Defects

When something you’ve purchased is defective, you usually send it back for a replacement, or throw it out and buy a new one. If you happen to be in the explosives business, however, the opposite holds true...DEIXIS 2004-2005 (a DOE publication)

Housing Lasers

Developing laser fusion may be the ultimate solution to the energy problem, and computational science is helping us get there. Deixis, 2002-2003 (published for the DOE).

Environmental Articles

Model Mixes Ice, Heat, Water And Salt To View The Ocean's Future

Within the next several decades, ice over the Arctic will completely disappear during the summer. That’s just one of the clear and dramatic predictions to come from models developed by the Climate Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM) program at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Waiter There’s a Dye in My Soup

Food dye may prove to be the ultimate safe pesticide. Environmental Health Perspectives (a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), Volume 104, Number 2, February 1996.

Links To Other Works

Virus Beater: A new computer virus immunization system mimics the human immune system. IBM’s Think Research, Number 1, 2000.

TransNote Transformation: IBM's Personal Computing Division developed a machine that integrates computers and paper in previously unimaginable harmony. IBM’s Think Research, 2001.

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